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Andes A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955542, Signal Books, July 2009
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Andes form the backbone of South America. Irradiating from Cuzco the symbolic "navel" of the indigenous world the mountain range was home to an extraordinary theocratic empire and civilization, the Incas, who built stone te...
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French Riviera A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955580, Signal Books, June 2009
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! We all have our image of the French Riviera: the azure blue of the sea and the swimming pools; the dark green of the pines and the swaying palms; the yachts and the sports cars on the Corniche roads; the hovering croupiers raki...
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West Country A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955610, Signal Books, May 2009
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The English West Country is a land of exceptional landscapes: many miles of wild, unspoilt coastline and vast expanses of wild moorland; great cities such as Exeter, Plymouth, Bath and Bristol; and market towns, villages and ha...
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Through Another Europe An Anthology of Travel Writing on the Balkans
ISBN: PB: 9781904955535, Signal Books, March 2009
320 pp., 21.7x14.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Few regions of the world have captured the Western imagination as powerfully as the Balkan peninsula. For centuries its social crises and cultural traditions have appalled and enthralled diplomats, journalists, novelists and tr...
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£14,99
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Camargue Portrait of a Wilderness
ISBN: PB: 9781904955573, Signal Books, March 2009
256 pp., 22.1x15.9 cm, black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! One of Europe's last remaining wildernesses, the Camargue forms a unique landscape of salt-marsh, lagoons, cultivated farmland and seashore. Where the turbulent River Rhone meets the Mediterranean in southern France lies this h...
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£12,99
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Trans-Siberian Railway A Traveller's Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9781904955498, Signal Books, January 2009
320 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! No railway journey on Earth can equal the Trans-Siberian between Moscow and Vladivostok. It is not just its vast length and the great variety of the lands and climes through which it passes. It is not just its history as the li...
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£12,99
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Avignon of the Popes City of Exiles
ISBN: PB: 9781904955566, Signal Books, November 2008
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm
For sale in CIS only! At the beginning of the fourteenth century, anarchy in Italy led to the capital of the Christian world being moved from Rome for the first and only time in history. It was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive...
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£9,99
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Belgrade A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955436, Signal Books, September 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Belgrade sits above the confluence of two great rivers, the Sava and Danube. It has been home to many civilizations: Celts, Romans, Byzantines, Bulgars, Magyars, Ottomans and Serbs. Frequently attacked and destroyed, it has bee...
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£12,00
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Brussels A Literary and Cultural History (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781904955474, Signal Books, September 2008
256 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! From its humble origins as a few huts in a forbidding swamp, Brussels took more than a thousand years to become the capital of the Duchy of Brabant and then of Burgundy, and from 1830 the capital city of the new kingdom of Belg...
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Vienna A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955450, Signal Books, September 2008
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Habsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Au...
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